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BRIANNA KEILAR: Over on planet Fox which loyally orbits planet Trump, there s a new villain of the day, and its billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. The target on his back was born of this interview with Jake Tapper here on CNN.
BILL GATES, PHILANTHROPIST: Bars and restaurants in most of the country will be closed as we go into this wave, and I think, sadly, that s appropriate. Depending on how severe it is, the decision about schools is much more complicated because they are, you know, the benefits are pretty high. The amount of transmission is not the same as in restaurants and bars. So, you know, tradeoffs will have to be made. But the next four to six months really call on us to do our best because we concede that this will end.
General Electric (NYSE:GE) at this time. None of them are current components of the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio, but they easily could be, and arguably should be.
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Microsoft has turned itself into a top-notch tollbooth
For years Buffett has eschewed technology stocks, explaining that he doesn t like to own companies he doesn t understand. Although he didn t explicitly name the software giant as a company he was deliberately avoiding, Microsoft was part of the mix he just couldn t get behind.
The Microsoft of then isn t the Microsoft of today, however. Then, the company s Windows operating system and office productivity suites were its core revenue drivers as well as market leaders. But both were cyclical, and consistently under attack by competitors. Now, the company s business model is much more diversified, and monetized quite predictably.
Dover educators get $30,000 in SEED grants to help students learn
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DOVER Seacoast Educational Endowment for Dover, a nonprofit organization dedicated to lifting academic excellence in the city s public schools, recently approved approximately $30,000 in grant awards to teachers and administrators across the district.
The largest grant award went to Dover Middle School’s Amie Hinkley and Deb Jacobs. SEED will provide $10,000 to purchase 30 student-devices equipped with Google Expeditions. This immersive education app allows students to take a virtual field trip to any place in the world, at any time in history. Purchased through Best Buy Education, the funding includes allowances for a charging cart, Geek Squad White Glove service, Geek Squad 24/7 support, and nine months of professional development.
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Lennox Hill, a Netflix docuseries that follows four physicians at a New York hospital, takes place before the COVID-19 pandemic. In some ways, that makes their hardships and hectic work lives even more powerful. The physicians make difficult decisions to save patients while also tending to their own personal lives and those lines too often are blurred. In the last episode, the pandemic has arrived, and while viewers have less access to the doctors then, we can only imagine what they re going through, given what we ve seen already. (WILSON CRISCIONE)
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